Netflix and material cooperation in evil

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EXdrinker said:
It absolutely is a sin to pay for a Netflix subscription.
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That is complete nonsense! Please do not make reckless statements like that.

By the way there was a Vatican screening of the Netflix movie The Two Popes so I guess the Cardinals and others who watched it there committed a sin.
 
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EXdrinker said:
It absolutely is a sin to pay for a Netflix subscription. Netflix isn’t just a vocal supporter of abortion, it actively uses money from subscriptions to fight to keep the murder of the unborn legal. They are a dastardly organization that is subverting the culture of America.
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By this logic we may as well just head to the hills and die. It would be fair to assume that you wear clothes, would it not? Have you thoroughly investigated each particular brand to ensure that they don’t cooperate with objectionable organizations? What about the home you live in? Can you guarantee beyond a shadow of a doubt that your payments aren’t being used to support immoral companies? What about the food you eat and the beverages you drink? Under your standards, you’re an “absolute sinner” if it turns out that the companies you purchase sustenance from support abortion.

While you’re at it, you may as well stop paying for your electricity, internet, and gas too, since there’s a good chance that your suppliers each support an objectionable organization of one kind or another. I’m sure you’ll find a good Mountain to sleep on if you search far enough, just make sure not to bring your pillow and blanket with you! They might support Planned Parenthood!
 
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Every one of the services mentioned, from Amazon to Hulu to Disney to your cable company to all phone service providers in some way supports either planned parenthood or something else Catholics can’t support. Same for every auto manufacturer and electric company. You cannot avoid remote cooperation and live in the modern USA

That is why we have to make Prudential judgements.
 
BrowseAbout said:
While you’re at it, you may as well stop paying for your electricity, internet, and gas too, since there’s a good chance that your suppliers each support an objectionable organization of one kind or another. I’m sure you’ll find a good Mountain to sleep on if you search far enough, just make sure not to bring your pillow and blanket with you! They might support Planned Parenthood!
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And make sure you can sleep on that mountain indefinitely without paying for the privilege. If you buy the mountain, well, you’re using Federal Reserve Notes, which are largely underpinned by mortgages (the Fed owns about 1/3 of all mortgages in the US through having bought mortgage-backed securities), and if you take out a mortgage to buy the mountain, well, see above. If you rent your mountainside space, ditto.

I say this not to be sarcastic, but to show how that anything beyond breathing air, gathering water to drink by holding out your hands during a rainstorm, and arguably, being a hunter-gatherer, means that you touch the world’s economy in some way. Separating sinful activity from participating in the economy is like trying to separate spaghetti into pasta and sauce, or breaking down soup or chili into its original ingredients. And unless you fashion clothes from the skins of free-ranging animals who belong to nobody, going naked is not accepted in most quarters of society. In Britain, it is no crime to go naked in public, but alas, some of those free-ranging animals… belong to the Crown…

Our Blessed Lord does not expect us to be Diogenes.
 
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Netflix is different. It is not needed and they are overtly subverting the culture of America and fighting and paying for people to oppose just moral laws restricting child killing in Georgia. This isn’t purchasing a cell phone plan from Verizon who matches employee’s donations to 501 c3 organizations which includes Planned Parenthood. This is overt and direct support for murdering unborn children by one of the most valuable companies on the planet. There are other much less immoral companies from which to purchase entertainment. To continue supporting them, knowing that their support is direct and overt is sinful. Culpability for this cooperation with evil wil be dependent on each person but, the blanket, “all companies support some issues that go against catholic moratlity”, in my opinion, does not apply here. Overt direct participation in fighting against restrictions against child murder is a line that should not be crossed.
 
Marinakeer said:
Netflix … also some really bad stuff that promotes evil.
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You are not alone in thinking this. I have noticed this over the last two years and I am becoming quite uncomfortable with the amount of series and movies that exonerate evil and Satan. There is also a lot that have incorporated homosexuality into their movies or series, that is not obvious at the start.

I have been seriously thinking of cancelling my subscription because there is very little to watch other than this diabolical stuff. It does seem to be very heavily weighted with evil related programmes. I stay away from American movies and series as they tend to be the worst in all of above and also saying the Lords name in vain on what seems to be a very regular basis. Then there is their support of immoral groups and organisations.

It is wonderful that you are so early in your spiritual journey able to identify immorality in such companies. Not everyone can do this.
 
I don’t understand this moaning and complaining about shows on Netflix. Netflix has hundreds of shows. If you start watching and don’t like a show for whatever reason you switch off and watch something else. How difficult is that?
I am Catholic, a Netflix subscriber and yes I will continue to watch Netflix. No that does not make me a sinner and how dare anyone suggest such a thing.
 
Montrose said:
I am Catholic, a Netflix subscriber and yes I will continue to watch Netflix. No that does not make me a sinner and how dare anyone suggest such a thing.
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I dare suggest it because it costs one next to nothing to tell this company that it will not get one’s money when it directly and publicly advocates for child murder. There are many entertainment companies that do not do this. Please reconsider your support of companies providing unnecessary products when they openly advocate for and financially support child murder. There are better options.
 
Why support a company that actively promotes abortion? I canceled my subscription after Netflix ran a “Salute to Abortion” special a while back.
 
MikeInVA said:
Why support a company that actively promotes abortion? I canceled my subscription after Netflix ran a “Salute to Abortion” special a while back.
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If we were to not buy clothes, food, drink etc from stores/corporations that did/said things that contradicted Church teachings we would all be living in caves, naked and drinking water.
There has to be commonsense used as well.

By the way, nobody answered an earlier question of mine.
There was a Vatican screening of the NETFLIX movie The Two Popes. Does that mean the Cardinals and others who watched it were sinning??
 
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Montrose said:
If we were to not buy clothes, food, drink etc from stores/corporations that did/said things that contradicted Church teachings we would all be living in caves, naked and drinking water.
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Sometimes, in the life of a martyr, it comes to that. You seem to have an aversion to hardship and a penchant for creature comforts.

I am not saying that this instance is a good example, but if were truly a sin for you to have a luxury item such as a home, would you give it up, or protest that you don’t want to be drinking water, naked, in a cave?
 
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Montrose said:
Does that mean the Cardinals and others who watched it were sinning??
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I did not say that it is sinful to subscribe to Netflix. I said asked why you would support a company that actively endorses abortion. There is a difference in a company that uses its profits to support the abortion industry and one that produces “entertainment” that actively endorses abortion.
 
MikeInVA said:
I did not say that it is sinful to subscribe to Netflix. I said asked why you would support a company that actively endorses abortion. There is a difference in a company that uses its profits to support the abortion industry and one that produces “entertainment” that actively endorses abortion.
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Then you are also saying that nobody in the Vatican should have watched the movie.
 
Anesti33 said:
You seem to have an aversion to hardship and a penchant for creature comforts.

I am not saying that this instance is a good example, but if were truly a sin for you to have a luxury item such as a home, would you give it up, or protest that you don’t want to be drinking water, naked, in a cave?
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But what nonsense is this ???

I go crazy every day polishing the words in a much more formal environment than mine and in a language other than mine, and then these expressions are allowed ???
 
It’s not about me. If you want to support Netflix and watch their shows, you’re welcome to it. Same with those in the Vatican. I choose not to support Netflix.
 
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